Elizabeth is a special needs student. While she had progressed through most of the tenth grade, her emotional disturbances were interfering with her educational progress and eventually necessitated treatment in a facility. While she was undergoing treatment, her prior school district notified her parents that she was being de-enrolled from her school placement and that an IEP would not be provided until Elizabeth was returned to the district.

Unless there’s some kind of Christmas miracle in the next 10 days, Hobby Lobby will not get an injunction as a gift from Santa the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals this year.

Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to comply with the Affordable Care Act birth control mandate, which becomes effective January 1. It asked the appellate court to enjoin the law. Thursday, the Tenth Circuit denied the crafty chain’s motion for a preliminary injunction, finding that Hobby Lobby failed to demonstrate “entitlement to such relief.”

Frank Brown sued his former employer, ScriptPro, LLC, alleging Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations and trying to collect payment for overtime hours he allegedly worked from home. Brown, however, was a non-exempt employee and he didn't log that time.

That brings us -- and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals -- to what we will call the Ke$ha rule of non-exempt compensation: If an employee wants to be paid for his work, it has to be "tik tok, on the clock." Or the payment party will stop.

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